Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary E. Townsend, Radcliffe '40 rose before breakfast Monday morning to plant her prize blossom, but a few hours later she found it in a vast of water, brightening up one of the administration offices...
Since then the Radcliffe Maintenance men have adopted it, carefully setting it out every morning and bringing it back under cover when the day's work is done. Every admirer of the plant is jealously watched as a potential souvenir hunter...
...plans, altered details. Little did it seem to matter to the King of Kings that an architect omitted plumbing detail when building a hotel, that Teheran's water supply still came through the streets in half-open, easily contaminated cement drains, that Teheran's old electric power plant had a limited capacity. When His Imperial Majesty drove at night through a street not sufficiently lighted for his tastes, he ordered more powerful bulbs installed. Upshot of this was that the rest of Teheran was plunged into semidarkness...
...factory and the slum together composed the "non-city," and no authority existed by which they could be segregated. "Workers' houses . . . would be built smack up against a steel works, a dye plant, a gas works or a railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...
...debt-ridden churches in his locality, a devout Methodist last week put forward a bit of oldtime religion. John O. Mullins, of Wesley, Iowa offered 100 bushels of seed corn free to farmers who would undertake to plant it on "God's acres," give the crop to God's uses. Worth $700, the seed corn would be distributed in 7-pound packages, each of which would plant one acre, produce 50 bushels-at 75? per bushel, a total of some...